We would like to invite you to the 44th Annual NOBCChE Conference and K-12 STEM Week held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Minneapolis, MN Oct. 30 - Nov. 3. This year's conference is themed We Are NOBCChE: Community, Leadership, and Partnerships. NOBCChE is an inclusive community of STEM leaders focused on catalyzing STEM partnerships for the 21st Century, and we hope that the workshops and sessions at the 44th conference convey this message. Please read through the Call to Conference to learn more about Minneapolis, Registration/Hotel, opportunities to present your research, as well as, a preview of workshop offerings and our K-12 STEM Week activities.

Business Insider If you are an American scientist, student, teacher, or business person working on climate change solutions, France would love for you to stay awhile.
Following President Donald Trump's June 2 decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement — a multi-country pact that acknowledges global warming poses serious threats to humanity and the environment — the French government has created an outlet for people from all countries who still want to fight climate change. READ MORE

Fast CompanyHere's the thing about that company where you just had a job interview: It's kind of like the household in which you grew up. Not in the sense that you can watch a half-hour of TV after dinner, but in the more general sense that it's got its own culture — its own rules, expectations, traditions, and ways of doing things. Just like your next-door neighbors' parents growing up had different rules for what's rewarded and what isn’t tolerated within the family, your prospective employer does, too. And they’re sometimes hard to understand unless you spend every single day there.READ MORE

WIRED“Imagine you are nothing like how you are right now,” says Duretti Hirpa, a senior engineer at Slack. The words tumble out of her mouth as she tries to convey the alienation and otherness of working in Silicon Valley when you don’t fit the conventional image of an engineer. “It’s very tough to explain to someone what you experience, if it’s not their lived experience,” she says. Between 2006 and 2011, women represented just 12 percent of the engineering workforce in the United States, according to data collected by the American Association of University Women. In the same time period, women of color accounted for just over 4 percent of the engineering talent.READ MORE

Education WeekMost middle and high school students are not interested in science, math, and even space, teachers said in a new national poll.
The poll, commissioned by Lockheed Martin, an aerospace and defense contracting company, asked 1,000 U.S. middle and high school teachers about their views on student interest in science and math. Only 38 percent said the majority of their students seem naturally interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The sample is nationally representative, and the survey was conducted online from April 5-11. READ MORE

The New York TimesAdministrators at the University of Kansas knew they had a problem: Many of their most vulnerable students — largely low income and often the first in their families to go to college — were not graduating. The administrators needed to figure out why students like this were struggling. So they did something that those in higher education rarely do: They looked to a competitor for help.READ MORE

ScienceThere’s a lot of gloom and doom in the conversations about science careers these days. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers an uplifting message to biomedical trainees: It might actually be a good time for young scientists.
The study — which investigated funding trends at the National Institutes of Health but was conducted independently of the agency — confirms that the aging academic workforce is limiting opportunities for younger scientists. READ MORE

By Michael J. Berens Leaders and managers seeking to engage, motivate and retain employees should consider adopting a slightly revised version of the Golden Rule. "Manage others as you want to be managed" is the lesson that can be drawn from a recent study of the relationship between varying degrees of work autonomy and levels of employee satisfaction. The findings indicate that a traditional top-down, command-and-control management style — still widely in use — is counterproductive.
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ForbesOnce you decide you want to make a job or career change, your first tendency is to feel impatient. You want to get through the murky uncertainty of the job search itself and have it behind you.
Being in a rush might delay your success. You need to slow down and do your homework before diving in head first. The truth is, job hunting in today's environment takes time. In fact, the only thing that is certain is that your job search will take longer than you think it should. READ MORE